DALLAS | Museum Tower | 560 FT/171 M | 42 FLOORS

[Dallas]

'Towering Inferno' ........... I read that article ....... for goodness sakes, I'm sure there is a solution to the problem ........ media accounts have become way to sensationalized ........ I doubt heavy pieces of metal sculptured art are going to wither away or become damaged in the small time frame it will take to solve this problem ..... all this chicken little, yellow journalism is getting out of hand.

[fistofsouth]

Originally Posted by blacktrojan3921

Always sucks that airports impose height limits on the city, especially when the airport in question is now trumped by an even bigger airport, i.e. The Dallas-Fort Worth airport.

Well Love Field is critical to the success of Dallas' High-end Shopping destinations. If the trip from the airplane to the store goes from 10 minutes to 40 minutes Dallas would lose some of it's clientele to other large markets. We DON"T want to put our Beretta Gallery in jeopardy.

[skys the limit]

Below is an updated photo of the 42 story Museum Tower skyscraper courtesy of CTroyMathis on Dallas Metropolis, taken 11-30-12.

He reports that the pool is filled and the lawn is in place up on the podium. The front drive/entrance/etc. is finishing out. The side facing Woodall Rodgers off-ramp and Pearl has a lot of foliage planted and positioned to climb further up fencing.

The new Klyde Warren deck park at the foot of Museum Tower forms a perfect segueway between the tower and Uptown.

[vandelay]

That's a good shot. You've got a RAMSA (Ritz-Carlton), a Johnson and Burgee (The Crescent), a KPF (Federal Reserve Bank), an IM Pei (Dallas Symphony), and a Foster + Partners (Dallas Opera).

That area is an architectural treasure trove.

[skys the limit]

Originally Posted by vandelay

That's a good shot. You've got a RAMSA (Ritz-Carlton), a Johnson and Burgee (The Crescent), a KPF (Federal Reserve Bank), an IM Pei (Dallas Symphony), and a Foster + Partners (Dallas Opera).

That area is an architectural treasure trove.

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You are entirely correct ... the area has become a who's who of big name architect's.

And of course Scott Johnson of LA based Johnson-Fain is the architect behind Museum Tower itself.

The neighborhood as seen in this view will soon have two new towers going up.

The new Frost Bank Tower at 22 stories will go up just to the left of Azure, (the 31 story condo tower which already has the 22 story "Residences at the Stoneleigh" condo tower currently under construction immediately to the right of Azure in the image).

The newest starchitect tower to go up in Dallas will be the 25 story Cesar Pelli Cesar tower that will be located just a couple blocks north of Museum Tower.

And the new 25 story Victory Tower will be just a few blocks to the left of the Cesar Pelli tower, out of view in this image.

The image below is a "quick and dirty" representation of how the same view will be changing with the new soon-to-be additions of the Frost Bank tower and the Cesar Pelli tower with its extreme ultra-sleek angled design.